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A56983	Enchiridion miscellaneum spare houres improv'd in meditations divine, contemplative, practical, moral, ethical, oeconomical, political : from the pietie and learning of Fr. Quarles & Ar. Warwick, Gents. : by it they being dead, yet speak (Heb. XI. 4).	Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644.; Warwick, Arthur, 1604?-1633. Spare minutes, or, Resolved meditations and premeditated resolutions.	1677 (1677)	Wing Q94; ESTC R6261	74,920	244

Religion is neglected and her establish't ceremonies interrupted let therefore that Prince that would be potent be pious and that he may punish loosness the better let him be religious the joy of Jerusalem depends upon the peace of Sion CHAP. LVIII LEt that Prince that desires full sovereignty temper the greatness of too potent a Nobility a great and potent Nobility quickens the people but presses their fortunes it adds Majesty to a Monarch but diminishes his power CHAP. LIX IT is dangerous for a Prince to use ambitious Natures but upon necessity either for his Warrs or to be instruments for the demolishing insolent greatness and that they may be the less dangerous let him chuse them rather out of mean births then noble and out of harsh natures rather then plausible And always be sure to ballance them with those that are as proud as they CHAP. LX. LEt Princes be very circumspect in the choyce of their Councellours chusing ueither by the greatness of the beard nor by the smoothness of the face let him be wise but not crafty active without private ends couragious without malice religious without faction secret without fraud one better read in his business than his Nature and a riddle only to be read above CHAP. LXI IN a mixt Monarchy if the Hierarchy grow too absolute is is wisdom in a Prince rather to depress it then suppress it all altertions in a fundamental Government bring apparent dangers but too sudden alteration threatens inevitable ruine when Aaron made a molten Calf Moses altered not the Government but reproved the Governour CHAP. LXII BEfore thou build a Fortress consider to what end if for resistance against the Enemy it is useless a valiant Army is a living Fortress if for suppressing the subject it is hurtfull it breeds Jealousies and Jealousies beget hatred if thou hast a strong Army to maintain it it adds nothing to thy strength if thy Army be weak it conduces much to thy danger the surest Fortress is the hands of thy Souldiers and the safest Citadel is the hearts of thy subjects CHAP. LXIII IT is a Princely Alchymie out of a necessary Warr to extract an honourable Peace and more beseeming the Majesty of a Prince to thirst after Peace than conquest blessedness is promis'd to the Peace-maker not to the conquerour it is a happy State whose Prince hath a peaceful Hand and a Martial Heart able both to use Peace and to manage Warr. CHAP. LXIV IT is a dishonourable thing for a Prince to run in debt for State-service but to pay it in the pardon of a Criminall Offence is most dangerous To cancell the faults of subjects with their deserts is not onely the symptom of a disordered Common-wealth but also of her Ruine CHAP. LXV LEt not a Commander be too forward to undertake a Warr without the person of his Prince it is a thankless employment where mischief attends upon the best success and where if a Conquerour he shall be in danger either through his onwn Ambition or his Princes suspition CHAP. LXVI IT is great oversight in a Prinnce for any respects either Actively or Passively to make a forreign Kingdom strong he that gives means to another to become powerfull weakens himself and enables him to take the advantage of his own weakness CHAP. LXVII WHen the humours of the people are stirr'd by discontents or popular grief it is wisdom in a Prince to give them moderate liberty to evaporate he that turn's the humour back too hastily makes the wound bleed inwardly and fils the body with malignity CHAP. LXVIII IF having levyed an Army thou findest thy self too weak either through the want of men or money the longer thou delay'st to fight the greater thy Inconvenience grow's if once thy Army falls asunder thou certainly loosest by thy delay where hazarding thyfortunes betimes thou hast the advantage of thy men and may'st by fortune win the day it is less dishohour to be overcome by force than by flight CHAP. LXIX IT is the part of a wise Commander in Warrs eether Offensive or Defensive towork a necessity of Fighting into the breasts of his Souldiers Necessity of action takes away the fear of the Act and makes bold Resolution the favorite of Fortune CHAP. LXX CLemency and mildness is most proper for a Principality but reservedness and severity for a Republique but moderation in both Excess in the one breads contempt in the other Hatted when to sharpen the first and when to sweeten the last let Time and Occasion direct thy judgment CHAP. LXXI IT is very requisite for a Prince that desires the continuance of Peace in time of Peace to encourage and respect his Commanders When brave Spirits find neglect to be the effect of quiet times they devise all means to remove the Cause and by suggesting inducements to new Warrs disturb and unsettle the old Peace buying private honour with publique danger CHAP. LXXII BE not covetous for priority in advising thy Prince to a doubtful Attempt which concern's his State if it prosper the Glory must be his if it fail the dishonour will be thine When the Spirit of a Prince is stopped in the discharge it will recoyl and wound the first Adviser CHAP. LXXIII IF being the Commander of an army thou espiest a gross and manifest errour in thine Enemy look wel to thy self for treachery is not farr off He whom desire of victory binds too much is apt to stumble at his own Ruin CHAP. LXXIV IT is the heigh of a provident Commander not onely to keep his own designs indiscoverable to his Enemy but likewise to be studious to discover his He that can best do the one and nearest guess at the other is the next step to a conqueror But he that fail's in both must either ascribe his Overthrow to his own Folly or his victory to the Hand of Fortune CHAP. LXXV IF thou be ambitious of Honour and yet fearfull of the Canker of Honour Envy so behave thy self that Opinion may be satisfied in this that thou seekest Merit and not Fame and that thou attributest thy Preferment rather to Providence than thy own Vertue Honour is a due debt to the deserver and who ever envyed the paymēt of a debt a just advancement is a providentiall act of Providence CHAP. LXXVI IT behoves a Prince to bee very circumspect before he make a League which being made and then broke is the forfeiture of his Honour He that obtain's a Kingdom with the rupture of his faith hath gain'd the Glory of a Conquest but lost the honour of a Conquerour CHAP. LXXVII LEt States that aim at greatness beware lest new Gentry multiply too fast or grow too glorious Where there is too great a disproportion betwixt the Gentry and the common Subject the one grow's insolent the other slavish When the body of the Gentry grow's too glorious for a Corslet there the heads of the vulgar wax too heavy for the Helmet CHAP. LXXVII UPon the beleaguering of

a city let the Commander endeavour to take from the Defendants all scruples which may invite them to a necessity of defence Whom the fear of slavery necessitates to sight the boldness of their resolution will disavantage the assaylants and dissicilitate their design Sense of necessity justifies the Warr and they are hopefull in their arms who have no other hope but in their ams CHAP. LXXIX IT is good for States Princes if thy use ambitious men for their advantage so to order things that they be still progressive rather than retrograde When ambitious men find an open passage they are rather busie than dangerous and if well watcht in their proceedings they will catch themselvs intheir own snare and prepare a way for their own destruction CHAP. LXXX OF all Recreationis Hunting is most proper to a Commander by the frequency whereof he may be instructed in that necessary knowledge of situation with pleasure which by earnest experience would be dearly purchas'd The Chase is a fair Resemblance of a hopefull Warr proposing to the Pursuer a flying Enemy CHAP. LXXXI EXpect the army of thy Enemy on plain and easie ground and still avoyd mountainous and rocky places and straight passages to the utmost of thy power it is not safe to pitch any where thy forces cannot be brought together He never deserv'd the name of good Gaimster that hazards his whole Rest upon less than the strength of his whole Game CHAP. LXXXII IT matters not much whether in government thou tread'st the steps of severe Hannibal or gentle Scipio so thy actions be honourable and thy life vertuous Both in the one and the other is both defect and danger if not corrected and supported by the fair Repute of some extraordinary Endowments No matter whether black or white so the Steed be good CHAP. LXXXIII IT is the safest way in a Martiall expedition to commit the main charge to one Companions in command beget confusion in the Camp When two able Commanders are joyned in equall Commission each is apt to think his own way best and by mutuall thwarting each other both give opportunity to the Enemy CHAP. LXXXIV IT is a high point of Providence in a Prince to observe popular Sects in their first Rise and with a severe hand to nipp them in the Budd But being once full ag'd it is wisdom not to oppose them with too strong a hand lest in suppressing one there arise two a soft Current is soon stopped but a strong stream resisted breaks into many or overwhelm's all CHAP. LXXXV IT makes very much to thy advantage to observe strictly the Nationall vertues and vices and humours of forrein Kingdoms whereby the times past shall read usefull Lectures to the times present He that would see what shall be let him consider what hath been CHAP. LXXXVI IF like Manlius thou commandest stout and great things be like Manlius stout to execute great commands it is a great blemish in Sovereignty when the Will rores and the Power whispers if thou canst not execute as freely as thou commandst command no more than what thou maist also freely execute CHAP. LXXXII IF one Prince desire to obtain any thing of another let him if occasion will bear it give him no time to advise Let him endeavour to make him see a necessity of sudden resolution and the danger either of Deniall or Delay Hee that gives time to resolve gives leasure to deny and warning to prepare CHAP. LXXXVIII L Let not thine army at the first encounter be too prodigall in her strength for a dead lift When the enemy hath abated the fury of his first heat let him then feel thou hast reserved thy forces for the last blow So shall the honour he hath gained by his valour encrease the glory of thy victory Fore-games when they prove are speediest but after-games if wisely play'd are surest CHAP. LXXXIX IT is very requisite for a Prince to keep the Church always in proportion to the State If the Government of the one be Monarchicall and the other Democraticall they will agree like Metall joyned with clay but for a while Durable is that State where Aaron commands the people and where Moses commands Aaron But most happy in the continuance where God commands both CHAP. XC LEt not the Covetousness of a Captain purloyn to his own use or any way bereave his souldiers of any profit due unto their service either in their means or spoyls Such injuries being quickn'd by their dayly necessities are never forgot What Souldiers earn with the hazard of their lives if not enjoy'd prophesies an overthrow in the next Battell CHAP. XCI IF a Prince expect vertuous Subjects let his Subjects have a vertuous prince So shall he the better punish the vices of his degenerate Subjects So shall they trulier prize vertue and follow it being exemplified in their Prince CHAP. XCII IT is the property of a wise Commander to cast an eye rather upon Actions than upon persons and rather to reward the merits of men than to read the Letters of Ladies He that for favour or reward preferr's a worthless Souldier betray 's a Kingdom to advance a Traytor CHAP. CXIII WHere Order and Fury are well acquainted the Warr prospers and Souldiers end no less men then they begun Order is quickened by Fury and Fury is regulated by Order But where Order is wanting Fury runs her own way and being an unthrift of its own strength failing in the first assault cravens and such beginning more than men end less than women CHAP. XCIV IT is the quality of a wise Commander to make his Souldiers confident of his wisdom and their own strength if any danger be to conceal it if manifest to lessen it Let him possess his army with the justness of the Warr and with a certainty of the victory A good cause makes a stout heart and a strong arm They that fear an overthrow are half conquered CHAP. XCV IT is requisite in a Generall to mingle love with the severity of his Discipline they that cannot be induced to fear for love will never be inforced to love for feare Love opens the heart Fear shuts it That encourages This compell's And victory meets encouragement but flees Compulsion CHAP. XCVI IT is the part of a well advised State never to entrust a weighty service unto whom a noted injury or dishonour hath been done He cannever be zealous in performance of Service the height of whose expectation can rather recover a lost name than gain a fresh honour CHAP. XCVII THree ways there be to begin a Repute and gain dignities in a Common-wealth The first by the vertue of glorious Parents which till thou degeneratest too much may raise thee upon the wings of Opinion The second is by associating with those whose actions are known to be eminent The third by acting some exploit either publique or private which in thy handhath proved honourable The two first may miss being founded on Opinion the